Living with diabetes isn’t a lot of fun
I have lived with diabetes for quite a number of years now. When I was first diagnosed with the condition I didn’t really understand the degree of just how life changing it would be as time went by.
Because I didn’t understand I didn’t manage things very well and for a long time I just caried on as if nothing was wrong. That, looking back was a massive mistake that I’m now paying for.
I’ll be brutally honest with you, diabetes kills you very slowly and it kills you by attacking and destroying just about every part of your body over a time frame of years so you don’t notice until it’s too late to do anything about it.
Not only does it destroy your body, it also destroys your life. I have so many restrictions on what I can do now because of the damage done.
I will confess that in recent years, in my attempt to kick back at the medical profession and in some screwed up way take back control of my life I totally stopped taking any medication for diabetes and carried on with life as if there was nothing wrong. This was very stupid of me looking back.
Finally, 2 years ago I had no choice to but to restart diabetic medication and to restrict my diet by removing as much sugar as possible. If I didn’t do this, the eye surgeon wouldn’t operate on my eyes and I would be blind for the rest of my life. Not something I would be able to live with.
Because diabetes doesn't stand still, at the beginning of this year for no understandable reasons my blood glucose levels started to rise again. This rise peaked a few weeks ago at over 35mmol/L which is VERY high considering that it ideally should be around 7mmol/L.
It’s taken a lot of hard work and a change/addition of medication and the fitting of a Libre 2 constant monitoring system but last night I finally saw my blood glucose level drop to a nice 6.8mmol/L and it’s holding at around and below 10mmol/L while I’m up and about.
I actually find this slightly reassuring that I might prolong my fight against diabetes just a little bit longer.